A DISNEY superfan who vanished from her Illinois home was found dead by suicide at Walt Disney World just hours later.
Summer Equitz, 31, was discovered Tuesday night at Disney’s Contemporary Resort hotel in Orlando, Florida, in what police described as “an apparent suicide.”
The Orange County medical examiner later identified her and said she died from multiple blunt impact injuries.
Equitz was a lifelong Disney fan who reportedly honeymooned at the theme park last year and revealed her pregnancy in December 2024.
She had left her home in Naperville, Illinois, and booked a flight to Florida without telling anyone, a relative claimed in a now-deleted Reddit post.
“She booked a flight there without telling us, unfortunately,” the family member wrote in a missing persons thread urging Disney park-goers to call police if they saw her.
Police swarmed the Contemporary Resort – one of more than 25 hotels on Disney’s sprawling property – shortly after 6pm on Tuesday after reports of a body.
Images shared online showed a white tent near the observation deck next to the hotel’s iconic monorail track.
Initial social media chatter suggested someone had been struck by the monorail, but officials were quick to shoot that down.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office told reporters: “[The guest] was NOT struck by the monorail, so that is erroneous information.”
The sheriff’s office declined to release further details Wednesday, citing the “suicide case”.
Equitz’s death came after a deeply personal year.
In addition to celebrating her honeymoon at Walt Disney World with husband Nico Danilovich last fall, she shared an ultrasound scan announcing her pregnancy just weeks later.
A self-described Disney devotee, Equitz frequently shared photos from the parks, including one taken with Disney CEO Bob Iger in April 2021.
“My life has peaked,” she reportedly captioned the photo.
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